The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has introduced a new policy that will allow animals who survive experimentation in their laboratories to be saved rather than killed and simply discarded when testing has been completed.
FDA laboratories routinely slaughter healthy animals after experimentation, but now, these abused creatures can be adopted or transferred to animal shelters to live out their lives in a safe place.
Although this policy change became effective in November 2019, the FDA hadn’t publicly announced the decision, according to The Hill.
The revised policy follows similar changes by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as the introduction of the Animal Freedom from Testing, Experiments, and Research Act (AFTER). This bipartisan legislation, introduced by Sen. Susan Collins and eight co-sponsors, would require federal laboratories to rehome animals used in experiments.
“There is no reason why regulated research animals that are suitable for adoption or retirement should be killed by our federal agencies,” Collins told The Hill. “I’m pleased that the FDA has joined the NIH and VA in enacting a lab animal retirement policy.”
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I should think so!
They shouldn’t be experimented on in the first place, and now they need so much more love.
Now if experimenting and testing on animals would only stop.
How about this. Quit experimenting on animals all together. Completely unnecessary.
It’s about time. Now let’s get them to pass laws that prohibit using animals for tests. There must obviously be a need to develop whatever drug or makeup they are trying to develop; therefore there must be people that has the condition or need for the product, so use them in the testing. Animals are not the same genetic makeup as people and the results will never be conclusive. So why use them at all?
Thank you. Bless them. They so deserve it.
Thank god they’ll finally know some happiness once in their lives
this is nice except how can they say “abused creatures” are “healthy animals” ? the testing needs to stop. let these sick freaks test on each other. I don’t like funding their fetish.
All these monsters torturing animals are sick in their heads, otherwise you could NOT do that. They would also do well as Nazi torturers in a war. Use terrorists for your research, not innocent animals!
Finally, the FDA finally find their humanity.
It is about time, although we need to actually end all cruel and worthless animal testing.
We need to adopt the poor animals that were inhumanely tortured during “testing” which has absolutely nor purpose or relevance and we need to STOP abusing innocent animals . No one has the right to assume it is okay to torture an innocent animal so that they can write a paper. THE UNWARRANTED, USELESS ABUSE HAS GOT TO STOP!!!!!
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If it wasn’t for us fighting their corner they would still be in there. Thank God they have come to their senses. All animal testing must end!
Enfin!!!!
Si des expériences doivent être faites, qu’elle soient effectuées sur certains monstres humains!!!
This is wonderful news.
Animals are not meant to be experimented on-it’s inhumane unethical & most of all cruel! This practice needs to end!
Well, I guess they think they are doing a great thing. The truth is they NEVER should have done any animal experiments at all.
I am thankful they are not killing them anymore.
You are so right on that one! Animal testing should NEVER have started to begin with & it needs to finally end!
Why did it take so long? I would really like to see statistics as to the validity of ALL animal testing relating to humans.
There’s some good news!
I wish there where laws passed to stop any animal testing and agree to rehome animals
I do so agree!